Tag: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

33m Nigerians may face food crisis in 2025 Report

Aminu Imam
Report on food crisis

Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people expected to be food insecure next year, a one-third jump from this year due to economic hardship, a joint report by the Government and United Nations (UN) said on Friday. The analysis conducted twice a year in 26 States and the federal capital, (FCT), projected that 33.1 million people would be food insecure by August next year. That compares with 24.8 million by the end of this year. Several factors are driving this trend, but most…

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Food Security: World Food Programme to combat hunger in Nigeria with $2.5bn

Aminu Imam

…Says 2.1m beneficiaries already captured The World Food Programme, (WFP), has pledged to support President Tinubus Zero Hunger Programme under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Country Director of WFP, David Stevesson, made this known on Tuesday, when he led a team of the United Nations, (UN) agency to visit the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, in her office. Stevesson disclosed that 2.1 million Nigerians have already been captured as beneficiaries of the program with the hope to expand working with the…

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WFP says rising hunger in drought-stricken southern Madagascar forcing families to eat insects

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the regions population or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported in Geneva, Switzerland. The figure is three times the number projected mid-year, with women and children comprising most of those experiencing crisis or emergency hunger conditions. The UN agency pointed out that Madagascar already has the worlds 10th highest rate of stunting, as almost half of all children under the age of five suffer…

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